I thought Barry was still going to maintain 3.xx, but was just working on 4.xx for the time being._________________Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. --Muad'Dib

I have an Averatec 3200 series laptop with an Ralink wireless card (I guess it is 2500). The puppy versions - 2.14 through 2.17 easily recognized the card and showed the network interface as RA0 and I could enter the required details and get connected.

In Puppy version 3.01, the interface is recognized as RA0 and I can enter the details, but there is no connection.

I posted earlier about how it would take as long as 5 minutes for applications to start up in 3.01:

RobertB wrote:

I read through the thread, and noticed several references to applications taking a long time to start up. That's the problem I'm having, and it's also noted in this thread under "Beginners Help". In that thread, a new user of Puppy Linux started with 3.01, had troubles, and gave up on it. I'm not giving up, but I'm wondering if I need to go back to 2.17.

I did a full HD install of Puppy 3.01 (from a disk directly from Barry, yay!) on a new (to me) computer, freshly repartitioned (4 data partitions and a 1GB swap) and reformatted. It's a Celeron (don't know what vintage) with some 300MB of RAM. But from the beginning, it's behaved strangely.

My ex-wife got a new Windows box (obviously, I had no say in the matter), so I got the memory from her old box. Replacing the 128MB stick with a 512MB stick appears to have solved the problem with applications starting up slowly.

Great for me, but Puppy's claim to fame is bringing back old equipment, even ones with very little RAM. And the programs ran fine in low memory; it was just starting them up that was a problem.

But as was noted before, 3.01 looks to be something of a lost puppy, with all the current development occurring in the 4.x direction. I won't worry about it any more -- just wanted to post the update for future reference.

It sound like Puppy wasn't loading into ram, or else was but only left a very small amount for using._________________Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. --Muad'Dib

I just realized that the HTML composer window is missing from SeaMonkey in 3.01. When I click on the "html" desktop icon a little window pops up saying

Quote:

Please open Composer from Window menu of currently running Mozilla

but I can't find the composer anywhere in SeaMonkey.

Which version of Seamonkey? One of them was badly flawed.

I'm using Seamonkey 1.1.7 in Puppy 3.01 and it works fine. See Window>Composer or press Ctrl+4 and it should pop up.

In SeaMonkey's Help > About it says SeaMonkey 1.1.2. There's no Composer in the drop-down menu under Window, only Navigator, and Ctrl+4 does nothing. Hm, I downloaded Puppy 3.01. /etc/puppyversion says 301. What happened? _________________Puppy Help 101 - an interactive tutorial for Lupu 5.25

In SeaMonkey's Help > About it says SeaMonkey 1.1.2. There's no Composer in the drop-down menu under Window, only Navigator, and Ctrl+4 does nothing. Hm, I downloaded Puppy 3.01. /etc/puppyversion says 301. What happened?

Yep. That's the flawed version that came with Puppy 3.01 so you'll need to upgrade. It's easy though. Just go to the Seamonkey Project page and download the full installer. It's a one-click GUI install that I've found relatively painless.

Hope that helps, and if BarryK does decide to put out a bug-fix version 3.02, I also hope he includes the Seamonkey update.

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Ok, I downloaded the latest SeaMonkey and tried it out. It seems to open faster than the version that came with 3.01, and I generally like it, but I didn't save it because of a few problems I'd like to clear up first.

1) How do I install it so that clicking on the desktop "browse" icon starts the new version? I can only start it by typing ./seamonkey in an rxvt window. I guess what I'm asking is, is it possible to replace the old version, and how do I do that?

2) How do I install Flash? Nearly every website I open causes a window to pop up telling me I need to install (the latest version of) Flash. I tried installing the tar.gz download, but it didn't work._________________Puppy Help 101 - an interactive tutorial for Lupu 5.25

1) How do I install it so that clicking on the desktop "browse" icon starts the new version? I can only start it by typing ./seamonkey in an rxvt window. I guess what I'm asking is, is it possible to replace the old version, and how do I do that?

Open /usr/local/bin/defaultbrowser file and edit as follows:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/local/seamonkey/seamonkey "$@"

Seamonkey-1.1.7 is placed in a slightly different location than version 1.1.2 and earlier. Seamonkey-1.1.5/6/7 all update to the same directory now. Earlier versions used to create a separate directory including the version number, which made it hard to upgrade over the top rather than just adding another version.

Hope that helps

PS I've had no problems with Flash 9 and Java in Seamonkey-1.1.7 either._________________Actions speak louder than words ... and they usually work when words don't!
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Xorg Wizard that comes with puppy seems to not finish making the Xorg.conf file and that is why it doesn't have out of the box Multi Monitor support.

What it doesn't do is a detection on the second monitor, it declares it is there in one part but does not attempt to do a scan on the next monitor to generate the information and also it doesnt put a second screen section.

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